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State Republicans are furious over the out-of-the-blue bid to rename...

Although many people criticized the governor for renaming a bridge that his father dedicated to GOP governor and Westchester native Malcolm Wilson, Cuomo said the idea was first brought up by retiring Assemblyman Herman “Denny” Farrell, D-Harlem during a speech made during breakfast at the governor’s mansion in Albany last week.

Farrell gets his name on the Upper West Side’s Riverbank State Park in Harlem.

The renaming bills were slipped into legislation passed by the Democrat-controlled chamber in the wee hours of Thursday morning. The legislation included extensions of laws set to expire because the legislature failed to renew them last week.